Juraperla daohugouensis was named by Huang and Nel (2007). Its type specimen is NIGP 12190, an exoskeleton (two complete fore wings, one hind leg and fragments of thorax), and it is an impression. Its type locality is Daohugou (NIGP collection), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large shale in the Daohugou Formation of China. It is the type species of Juraperla.